Yeah... games really don't need it. Especially now that next gen will look pretty close to CGI.

Imagine downloading a game onto the ps3 that is 100gb. Would take too long for me to care....

In December 2008, Pioneer Corporation unveiled a 400 GB Blu-ray Disc (containing 16 data layers, 25 GB each) that will be compatible with current players after a firmware update. Its planned launch is in the 2009–10 time frame for ROM and 2010–13 for rewritable discs. Ongoing development is under way to create a 1 TB Blu-ray Disc as soon as 2013.

from wikipedia

They should focus on playable game content instead of making incredibly well rendered mountains.

Indeed. It seems Square Enix continues to remain ignorant of their own problems.

Wow. I wonder how much one of those discs could cost.

50 GB for one game? that's crazy. How big was FF13 on PS3?

I can imagine like 15-20 years from now the average game size is 100 GB lol

About 41 GB, but 32 GB of it was CGI according to EG's digital foundry. MGS4 came close to it too.

I don't think games will go far beyond 20-25 GB discounting CGI due to production costs, however there's a lot fo stuff that's compressed and could benefit from the extra space... I think? Textures for instance are apparently compressed 100:1.

I'm no expert, but wouldn't that bring another problem?

I mean, now the drive reads the textures compressed, then the the CPU or whatever decompresses them and then they are used. Assuming that the slower part of that operation is probably the one involving the drive reading the textures from the disc, if the console has to read the textures uncompressed from the disc, wouldn't that take longer?

Just put the games on SDXC. (bye bye disk consoles)

Problem solved.

lol